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Foote, Edward T. – 1981
This educational plan for voluntary, cooperative school desegregation was designed to provide the St. Louis, Missouri Public School System with strategies for coping with desegregation effects, such as declining enrollments, teacher layoffs, and school closings. The primary components of the plan include: (1) permissive, interdistrict transfers on…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. Div. of Special Education. – 1981
The report analyzes the status of special education in Oklahoma public schools and institutions in response to a request from the Oklahoma House of Representatives. Numbers of handicapped children served in various disability categories are given, and methods of child count are described. Funding sources are detailed, and the inadequate amount of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Class Size, Cooperative Programs, Coordination
BARRY, FRANKLYN S. – 1967
THE CAMPUS SCHOOL PLAN FOR AN EDUCATIONAL PARK IN SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, WAS CONCEIVED WHEN THE BOARD OF EDUCATION WAS FACED WITH THE NEED TO REPLACE EIGHT OUTMODED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. THE PARK WOULD BE BUILT ON A SITE ON THE PERIPHERY OF THE CITY, TO WHICH STUDENTS WOULD BE TRANSPORTED BY BUS. THE FIRST CAMPUS WOULD ESTABLISH FOUR PAIRS OF…
Descriptors: Ancillary Services, Class Size, Costs, Educational Opportunities
PARSONS, JOHN M. – 1967
PRIOR TO 1965, A SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE STATE OF OHIO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TRANSPORTATION OF THOSE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PUPILS LIVING WITHIN ITS OWN BOUNDARIES. NEW LEGISLATION THAT YEAR LEGALIZED THE SPENDING OF TAX MONIES FOR TRANSPORTING PUPILS ATTENDING NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS, AND SERVED AS A MANDATE FOR ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS, REQUIRING THE…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bus Transportation, Coordinators, Inservice Education
LYLE, JEROLYN R.; O'BRIEN, RICHARD J. – 1968
THIS TECHNICAL NOTE IS A NONTECHNICAL DISCUSSION OF THE URBAN EDUCATION MODEL, AN ANALYTIC, SYMOBLIC MODEL TO BE USED IN PLANNING THE LOCATION AND ENROLLMENT SIZE OF URBAN SCHOOLS. AMONG THE EDUCATIONAL ALTERNATIVES THAT MAY BE CONSIDERED BY THE METHODOLOGY PRESENTED ARE THE "GREAT HIGH SCHOOLS" AND THE "EDUCATIONAL PARKS." THE…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Costs, Decision Making, Educational Facilities
McMillan, Robert L. – 1977
The combined total of 3,861 entering students during fall 1976 and spring l977 at Essex County College, New Jersey, were given the Comparative Guidance and Placement Test battery. This test and enrollment files provided the following student characteristics data: enrollment was 75% black, approximately 60% female, 64% high school graduates, about…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Aspiration, Blacks, College Freshmen
Herron, William P. – 1975
The Philadelphia experience very strongly indicates that at least in Philadelphia, and very probably in most large cities in the northeastern U.S., several factors--notably the geographic separation of the races within the city and the existence of a sizable non-public school system (Usually (Usually parochial)--preclude the effective…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Green, Robert L.; Pettigrew, Thomas F. – 1975
An attempt is made here to trace the development of Coleman's research reports and public statements. Several critical evaluations of this work are then reviewed, including one the authors have carried out. It is suggested the overall research suggests six generalizations: there has been an enormous, long term trend of whites leaving the central…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Enrollment
Baruchin, Fred; Kinsbury, Grace – 1973
In early 1972 the district embarked on a reorganization project to solve organizational problems that had lingered over the previous several years. Its objectives were to improve an already high quality educational program, increase the operational efficiency of the district, and provide for demonstrably greater economy. The results presented…
Descriptors: Creative Expression, Elementary Education, Enrollment, Group Activities
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT), Washington, DC. – 1974
Volume 17 of the 10-volume Highway Safety Program Manual (which provides guidance to State and local governments on preferred highway safety practices) focuses on pupil transportation safety. The purpose and objectives of a pupil transportation safety program are outlined. Federal authority in the area of pupil transportation and policies…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Federal Legislation
Dee, Rita – 1972
Operation Hospitality was a program started 4 years ago to bus children from all black inner city parochial schools to all white parochial schools, largely suburban. The first phase of an overall evaluation of the program involved the attitudes of the participating student populations. The second aspect of evaluation which was planned involved an…
Descriptors: Black Community, Bus Transportation, Community Surveys, Desegregation Effects
St. John, Nancy H. – 1975
This book focuses on the question: What is the effect of racial mixing in school on the children involved? Unless the context indicates a more specific meaning, "desegregation" is used here to refer broadly to racial mixing in schools. The term "integration" is reserved for that biracial situation in which the minority group is accepted on a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Educational Research
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1974
These hearings on school busing are comprised of the testimony of a number of U.S. Senators, Representatives, school board members, and representatives from civil rights organizations. "Material for the Record" consists of prepared statements, letters, and newspaper and periodical articles. The full texts of bills on busing, numbers S.179, S.287,…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Civil Rights, Desegregation Methods, Federal Legislation
Thompson, Edra; And Others – 1972
This monograph documents some aspects of school life at an Ontario school for kindergarten and first grade students. The report emphasizes some of the special features of the school, such as the use of parent volunteers; a highly individualized program based in a large measure on students' goals, interests, and readiness; a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Innovation, Grade 1, Home Instruction
Forty-five Fifteen Associates, Inc., Hinesburg, VT. – 1972
This document explores the various aspects of the 45-15 plan of school operation, whereby four groups of students are in school 45 days and then off 15 days on a rotating schedule throughout the year. The publication overviews the general aspects of 45-15, considering the basic concept and its origin, general implementation, how the plan compares…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational Finance, Educational Legislation, Educational Planning
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